Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

} an arrow Into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. In dry weather the rains all go around. The cheapest shoes squeak the loudest. Did you ever try to carry a loaf of bread on a bicycle ? An agent has to remain good natured all the time. The hotter the weather, the more agents there are in town. Probably doctors are cussed more than any other professional men. Every time one sees a kid worse than his own, he takes new courage. When an ignorant man goes to lying, he usually makes a bad mess of it. It does no good to knock on your competitor, for people will not believe you. '.lf you hear both sides of a divorce case, you are sure to think both are wrong. We have seen waiters at an ice cream parlor sweat like an iron moulder. Preachers earn their money the hardest way. Think of preaching on a hot Sunday. A woman thinks the noise is never so bad as when she is putting the baby to sleep. When a real mean man gets into ttouble everybody, but other mean men] is gladljjfit. A preacher always looks sheepish even when he goes to take a drink at a soda fountain A woman’s proudest achievement is to have her hands fruit stained in the canning season. A tobacco chewer doesn’t get down to chewing smoking tobacco till he is pretty well down the scale. What we call a good natured man is one who is bald headed, and can stand being guyed about it. When a doctor cures a patient, it is said he would have got well anjway; when one dies he is blamed for it. A raspberry stain on the bosom of a big fat woman’s dress is no worse, but it looks a whole lot funnier, than on a kid. E 3 Boys are good for one thing, they are always finding some one who can cook so much better than their mothers. As an evidence that drunkenness is disgraceful, we call your attention to the fact that ev-ery drunkard tries to lie out of it. We have noticed that folks who crowd into a car to get on the shady side, are often in the sun before the first station is reached. Fathers often offer their sons a gold watch at twenty-one if they will leave tobacco alone till they reach that age, but seldom do they have it to pay. Although everybody is taught how important it is when done using a thing, to put it back where it belongs, yet very few ever do put it back.